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Excerpt from The Ethical World-Conception of the Norse People: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature, in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of Comparative Religion Here, has been defined as the last, finishing process by which conscious ness takes possession of an object. World-conception would then mean a View or way of looking at and taking in the world as a fact of experience. Upon inquiry into the history Of culture, in primi tive times as well as among the lowest savages of today, we shall find that each and every people has had its own peculiar View of the world in which it has lived, and thereby of the universe as a whole and of man kind at large, so far as it has been able at all to entertain such images from its varied experiences and endowments. These conceptions, as far as they may have been formed, have also received their peculiar coloring from the environments and the hereditary traits of the individuals and peoples entertaining them. Hence arises a variety of world-conceptions, each finding its appropriate expression through certain geniuses, who in various times and climes have been known as prophets and priests, poets and philosophers. Social institutions, traditions, literary monuments, and archaeological finds, as products of their times and its seers, remain to tell the tale. To these we must turn, if we would find out what kind of a life and world-conception a given people has had. In the expression. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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